User blog comment:TheSinnohDuo/Rate my team!/@comment-32358261-20180317083235/@comment-32358261-20180317092945

For one story teams have random natures and ev so already that’s hindering. Not to mention messed up iv. That’s why you should never use them in a competitive environment.

If you want even small chance ev do matter. If you want to write off iv then it’s hurting your chances of ever being half good fine. It’s gonna bite back later but at least attempt to ev train all your Pokémon properly. I would say ev are much more important iv. Personally I don’t play pvp in PBB because of how tedious it is. I would normally train ev poke pelago (a feature in gen 7 games). This is one of the reasons why PBB isn’t well suited for competitive battling.

Honestly if you want to play competitive then play either on Pokémon showdown (it’s an online pokemon battle simulator) or 3ds battle spot. Both have their own share of problems. Showdown is so easy to access since you could just visit the website, create a team and battle. Very simple but it’s got clauses like evasion and sleep so I personally don’t use it. If you don’t care for this then it’s good. Other option is 3ds battle spot. Of course you’ll need a copy of the latest Pokémon game and a 3ds to play this. But this meta is 3v3 not 6v6. All Pokémon except box legends and mythicals are allowed. You’ll need to breed things on your own but it’s still much easier compared to PBB.

Having multiple mega is bad for a few reasons, the biggest one is losing an item slot. It’s especially if the base form is very horrible. Let’s take mega mawile for example. Your other mega is mega salamence. You choose mega salamence over mega mawile and now you have a useless Pokémon on your team being a weak regular mawile. To make it worse the item slot is taken up so you can’t even make the most of it. I was just stating those other factors to give examples. I can’t tell you how many tunes I have seen noobs running something like overheat on alolan marowak saying that it’s got a high base power so it’s fine.

I don’t care if luxray is your favourite pokemon. Because at the end of the day it’s still awful. Unless you could find some rare niche for using it. That’s only reason why anyone uses low tier Pokémon. Personally my favourite pokemon is lucario. But I don’t use it. Why? Because it isn’t that strong in its base form and I have come to terms with it. You should learn to do the same.

Like I said before, Alakazam can do all those things you just said but better. I can’t remember for sure but it does have some baton pass set that was actually pretty good at one point. It does have a good HA in magic bounce but obviously it’s a HA so it’s hard to get.

I never said dark type itself was bad at all. In fact it’s pretty good being able to hit everything for at least a resisted hit so you don’t need to worry about immunities. So it’s pretty good as an offensive type. I’m thinking ash greninja but you probably don’t have it. Tyranitar is pretty good. Mega is also strong. Though it’s got a glaring weakness of fighting made worse with rock. Krookodile is sort of good if you know how to use it properly. There are a few others but it depends on what role you want.